Associations to the word «Gangplank»

Wiktionary

GANGPLANK, noun. (nautical) A board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside

Dictionary definition

GANGPLANK, noun. A temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope